Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Eric Boehlert!

A bicyclist who was killed by a New Jersey Transit train Monday night was writer Eric Boehlert, founder and editor of Press Run, a blog about the media, according to his wife, Tracy Breslin.

Boehlert, 57, was a veteran writer and media analyst and a frequent television and radio guest discussing politics and the press on CNN and CNBC. He was a founding editor of Salon magazine, a fellow with Media Matters, and a former writer with Rolling Stone and Billboard magazines. He wrote two books, "Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush," and "Bloggers on the Bus."

Journalist Soledad O'Brien tweeted, "Just got crushing news from Tracy Breslin, wife of

@EricBoehlert https://pressrun.media Has died in a bike accident, age 57. Adored his kids Jane and Ben, his dogs, biking and running and basketball and good friends, a fierce and fearless defender of the truth."

Then there is this oft-mentioned dichotomy if not rivalry: Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Assumed that was going to link to Stanley Baker/Stanley Baxter tbh.

Motoo Abiko aka Fujiko A. Fujio, one half of the team that created Doraemon, Q-Taro etc and the sole creator of Ninja Hattori-kun

TS Persoff vs. Tamiroff

Elmer and Mr Benn author David McKee, 87

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/07/elmer-and-mr-benn-author-david-mckee-dies-at-87

pvmic and probably only of interest to me and maybe Ward Fowler and one or two others

Renee Glynne, continuity girl (her term) in the prime Hammer era and a welcome face in the Indicator releases spinning tales about work on various films.

Chris Bailey of the Saints

Oh, that’s too bad. RIP.

Not seeing that elsewhere.

Very sad. Hell of a band

posted on the band's Facebook:

It is with great pain in our hearts that we have to inform you about the passing of Chris Bailey, singer and songwriter of The Saints, on April the 9th 2022.
Chris lived a life of poetry and music and stranded on a Saturday night.
Family and friends

aw fuck

xpost Thank you aldo, yes I saw about Renee Glynne on various Facebook Hammer groups. I know she was a regular at Hammer events and genre film conventions, which I must admit hold no appeal to me - ever been to any, aldo?

RIP Henry Patterson aka Jack 'The Eagle Has Landed' Higgins

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/09/henry-patterson-author-of-the-eagle-has-landed-dies-aged-92

xpost

noooo fuck
rip Chris ;_;

glad i got to see him once - had no idea he was on the bill but i went to see nick cave years ago and as i walked into the theatre, the opening bars of 'just like fire would' started ringing out and i was so taken overcome with excitement, i missed my seat and sat down on the man next to me

Wow, great story!

RIP Chris ;_;

Hmm, Wikipedia had him passed on March 9th

Well that's what the Facebook post says too, TBF.

Right now Wikipedia says April 9, 2022. Earlier today there was no evidence his passing.

Am...I missing something? The official post says he passed on the 9th, so Wikipedia gets updated to reflect that.

I'm guessing the first wiki update made a typo

.. upthread says April 9th

I just looked at the Page History so yeah.

xpost a while up

Haven't been to a convention of any type in years. In fact it's pretty impossible to top the last one I was at so probably not worth trying.

(Lionel Fanthorpe did a birthday convention starring friends of his one year - Pratchett was the biggest name but also Dave Langford, a very drunk Colin Wilson, Guy N Smith and Brian Stableford who I also had lunch with.

In fact Langford talks about it here

https://ansible.uk/sfx/sfx090.html

)

Recognize the skinny kid standing just above Chris Bailey?

https://a1000mistakes.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/nick-cave-watches-the-saints-perform-at-the-tiger-room-melbourne-1977.jpg

Brian Stableford who I also had lunch with.

― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Sunday, April 10, 2022 11:14 PM

What did he talk about?

The latest issue of Ugly Things arrived today and from it I learned that one of the regular columnists, Don Craine of the Downliners Sect, passed on in February. Very entertaining writer and good music as well -- a post noting the passing from February

https://www.50thirdand3rd.com/don-craine-of-the-downliners-sect/

Jeremy Young, jobbing actor in the 60s and 70s, and most famous (for me anyway) as the first ever bad guy in Doctor Who.

What did he talk about?

― Robert Adam Gilmour

It's so long ago I can hardly remember, but French philosophy and what was on TV at the time I think (which was odd because I didn't have a TV at the time).

His talk earlier had concentrated (as had many of them given the nature of lots of the guests) on churning out genre SF without boring yourself or the reader. He had just had what turned out to be his last Warhammer novel published so leaned a bit on that, knowing nobody in the room had read it.

Gilbert

pic.twitter.com/STHhfpVSKU

— Gilbert Gottfried (@RealGilbert) April 12, 2022

Genuinely stunned and gutted by this. I had no idea he'd been sick; his weekly podcast had been a mix of old and new content lately, so I guess it makes sense. RIP.

Truly rotten! And there he was with some of the best memories of Bob Saget not that long back as well.

His USA Up All Night run remains underrated.

Aw man that sucks. A real delight of recent years for me was listening to old episodes of his podcast, especially classic tv stars like Butch Patrick, or even Alan Alda. He was such a fan, and always got great stories, i loved him the most when he was in that mode. the Buscemi ep was hilarious too.

Truly a legend & an unforgettable comedic voice.

Butch Patrick?

Lou "Butch" Patrick

Sure is something to realize they all left this year.

This photo is very sad now. RIP Bob Saget and RIP Louie Anderson. Both good friends that will be missed. pic.twitter.com/DLJ8Ntt7LN

— Gilbert Gottfried (@RealGilbert) January 21, 2022

And Norm just a few months prior!! Christ!!!

Fun Fact: Gottfried was the second-most successful Jean Doumanian SNL hire after Eddie Murphy.

I had one very brief personal encounter with GG when I was working as an usher at a benefit show where he was on the bill. I showed him where the bathroom was. He very polite and grateful. So, put him down as "nice to ushers."

man, this sucks. rip gilbert :(

thinking about it, as the voice of iago from aladdin, he's probably one of the first celebrity voices i remember

Oh man, I remember seeing this and thinking it was just a catchphrase Gilbert used and not one of the strangest moments in latter-day game show history. (9:50 is where it gets really good, the escalation and laughter is contagious) https://t.co/p0yyPqCa1j

— Mike's Hard Reissue + Novelization Posting (@Sir__Duque) April 12, 2022

That photo with Sagat & Louie is pretty haunting

many xposts - butch patrick ie Eddie Munster in the Munsters

Yeah. Know who it is, just was pleasantly surprised to see him metioned. Sorry, should have been more clear.

Michel Bouquet, French Actor & the Narrator of Night and Fog

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c97y9d44wn7o

Just saw that. RIP.

Jazz bassist Charnett Moffett. He was only 54. Played on Wynton Marsalis's best album (Black Codes From The Underground) when he was 17, and Sonny Sharrock's Ask The Ages when he was maybe 25.

RIP Michel, Gilbert and Charnett. All persons whose work/art I’ve loved.